Longer trip to suit A Word Apart

A WORD APART is the nap to a win a hot little claregalwayhotel.ie colts and geldings EBF Maiden at the opening stage of the Galway Festival tonight.

Dermot Weld's once-raced son of Desert Style had Ballybrit stamped all over him following his debut at the Curragh last month.

He was slowly into stride, but was noted doing all his best work at the end when beaten two lengths into second behind Sydney Harbour.